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A case study in Albania is presented based on the EU Phare Land Use Policy II project results where GIS-oriented instruments and innovative methodologies were implemented to support decision making for land-use policy and planning. The developed Land-Use Information System for Albania allows the logical and functional hierarchical arrangement of land uses and data harmonisation with other land-use description systems. It is linked to the object-oriented Land-Use Change Analyses methodology that groups changes into conversions and modifications. The preferred change patterns indicate that land users take rational decisions when changing land use, even in the absence of any regulating plan, as is the case in post-communist Albania.
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Jansen, L., Carrai, G., Petri, M. (2007). Land-Use Change at Cadastral Parcel Level in Albania. In: Koomen, E., Stillwell, J., Bakema, A., Scholten, H.J. (eds) Modelling Land-Use Change. The GeoJournal Library, vol 90. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5648-2_2
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